Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, became a Japanese citizen and a professor in the Imperial University. He died in 1904, leaving three sons and a daughter. Kazuo, 39, lives on inherited money, collects curios. Iwao, 35, tall, handsome,soldierly, teaches school. Kiyoshi, 32, is a musician. All married Japanese women. Daughter Susuko, an invalid, is unmarried...
With these words the Federal Board of Parole in Washington last week decided to keep invalid, impoverished Albert Bacon Fall, 70, in the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe to the legal limit of his year-and-a-day sentence. Petitions for his parole and for executive clemency had rolled in upon the Department of Justice from the not-too-sensitive Southwest. All were now sternly denied...
...southern boundary of Libya has never been definitely fixed. France has avoided the question for years by insisting that since Italy could not control the territory she already held it was a waste of time to talk about boundaries in the Sahara. Marshal Badoglio has now made this answer invalid...
...Davis, who has spent almost three years at Manila, wanted to join his invalid wife in Paris and "get a little rest." Sixty minutes after his resignation President Hoover, as everyone expected, nominated Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico to be Governor General of the Philippines. In Washington, Col. Roosevelt declared he was "very deeply grateful." Most Porto Rican politicos felt the same...
...suffered two heart attacks in 24 hours. Doctors insisted that for the sake of his health he must give up the Foreign Ministry. Brer Briand glories in the fact that probably no Foreign Minister since Metternich wields the international influence that is his. He had the figure of invalid, politically impotent Raymond Poincare before his eyes. The only promise that could be extracted from him was that he placed his portfolio at the disposal of Premier Laval in case the entire Cabinet resigned collectively...